Fifth Meeting of the Workshops for the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention

28 i 29 September 2006

Auditori - Palau de Congressos. Girona

Meeting organised by the Council of Europe, Spatial Planning and Landscape Division, in co-operation with the Ministry of Environment of Spain, the Secretariat for Territory and Biodiversity, the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia and the City of Girona.

Introduction

The European Landscape Convention was adopted in Florence (Italy) on 20 October 2000 and came into force on 1 March 2004, with the aim of promoting European landscape protection, management and planning, and organising European co-operation in this area. The Convention is the first international treaty to be exclusively concerned with all aspects of European landscape. It applies to the entire territory of the Parties and covers natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas. It concerns landscapes that might be considered outstanding as well as everyday or degraded landscapes.

The Convention represents an important contribution to the implementation of the Council of Europe’s objectives, namely to promote democracy, human rights and the rule of law and to seek common solutions to the main problems facing European society today. By taking into account landscape, cultural and natural values, the Council of Europe seeks to protect Europeans’ quality of life and well-being.

As at 25 September 2006, 25 States had ratified the Convention: Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Turkey, Ukraine. 8 States had signed but not ratified it: Azerbaijan, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

Organizers

The Council of Europe wishes to thank the following organisers for their co-operation and support in hosting the meeting of the Workshops and related events: the Spanish Ministry of the Environment, the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia and the City of Girona. The meeting has also supported by the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment.

Purpose of the Workshops

Organised on a regular basis since 2002, the meetings of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention take a detailed look at various practical aspects of the Convention. A genuine forum for sharing practice and ideas, these meetings are also an opportunity to present new concepts and achievements in relation to the European Landscape Convention. Special emphasis is given to the experiences of the state hosting the meeting.

Four meetings of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention have been held so far: on 23 and 24 May 2002 and on 27 and 28 November 2003 in Strasbourg on 16 and 17 June 2005 in Cork (Ireland) and on 11 and 12 May 2006, in Ljubljana (Slovénia) on the theme “Landscape and society”.

The aim of the Girona Workshops is to:

– examine experience of implementing the provisions of Article 6, C, D and E of the European Landscape Convention with regard to the identification and assessment of landscapes, the landscape quality objectives and the implementation of landscape policies;

– provide an opportunity for sharing experience, by examining both good and bad practice in European landscape protection, management and planning.

Participants

The Workshops are open to government officials, representatives of local and regional authorities, public and private organisations and NGOs working in the field of landscape and sustainable spatial development.

The number of participants is limited to 300 and the working languages are English, French, Spanish and Catalan.

Exhibition to coincide with the Workshops

Various Spanish regions are to present the results of their landscape policy in the form of an exhibition. The Municipality of Girona will display its achievements in the field of landscape in one of the City’s cultural centres and the Generalitat of Catalonia will present the exhibition “País de paisatges” (“Lands of Landscapes”).

Getting there

Girona-Costa Brava airport specialises in low-cost flights. The main airline is Ryanair (www.ryanair.com), but Transavia (www.transavia.com) also operates flights in and out of Girona. There are scheduled flights to the following destinations: Karlsruhe-Baden Baden and Dusseldorf (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Paris (France), Eindhoven and Rotterdam (Netherlands), Dublin and Shannon (Ireland), Alghero, Milan, Pisa, Rome, Venice (Italy), Blackpool, Bournemouth, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and East Midlands (United Kingdom) and Stockholm (Sweden). The airport is 12 km from Girona City centre and is served by taxis and buses.

Barcelona airport has connections to virtually all the major European cities. It is one and a half hours’ drive from Girona. Trains leave the airport every 15 minutes for Barcelona City centre (Sants Station) and from there, there are frequent train connections to Girona. See www.renfe.es for departure and arrival times. Eurolines (www.eurolines.es) also operates a direct bus service between Barcelona airport (Terminal B) and Girona City centre.

The Auditori - Palau de Congressos of Girona is 10 minutes’ walk from the train station and bus terminal.

Parking

Parking is available along the Auditori - Palau de Congressos.

Meals

Meals on 28 and 29, including the welcome dinner on 28, will be provided courtesy of the organisations hosting the event.

Websites

Details of the meeting, including information on booking hotels, are available on the following web site: www.catpaisatge.net/cep-girona2006

Information can also be found on the web sites of the institutions organising the meeting:

Council of Europe:www.coe.int/Conventioneuropéennedupaysage
Ministry of the Environment of Spain: www.mma.es
Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Generalitat of Catalonia: www.gencat.net/ptop
Landscape Observatory of Catalonia:www.catpaisatge.net

Organisation

Council of Europe

Maguelonne DÉJEANT-PONS Head of the Spatial Planning and Landscape Division, DG IV, Council of Europe F-67075, STRASBOURG, Cedex Tel: + 33 (0) 3 88 41 23 98 Fax: + 33 (0) 3 88 41 37 51 E-mail: maguelonne.dejeant-pons@coe.int

Andrée TERSER Assistant Spatial Planning and Landscape Division, DG IV Council of Europe F-67075 STRASBOURG Cedex Tel: +33 (0)3 88 41 31 97 Fax: +33 (0)3 88 41 37 51 E-mail: andree.terser@coe.int

Léa WEISS Spatial Planning and Landscape Division, DG IV Council of Europe F-67075 STRASBOURG Cedex Tel: +33 (0)3 88 41 54 31 Fax: +33 (0)3 88 41 37 51 E-mail: lea.weiss@coe.int

Espanya

Margarita ORTEGA

Margarita ORTEGA Head of Division of the Spatial Development Unit, Ministry of the Environment, Plaza San Juan de la Cruz s/n 28071 MADRID Tel: +34 91 597 68 67 Fax: +34 91 597 59 71 E-mail: mortega@mma.es

Joan GANYET i SOLÉ Director General of Architecture and Landscape Ministry of Spatial Planning and Public Works Government of Catalonia c. Aragó, 244 – 248 - 2a planta 08007 BARCELONA Tel: +34 93 495 80 48 +34 93 567 05 89 E-mail: joan.ganyet@gencat.net

Joan NOGUÉ Director the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia Carrer Hospici, 8 17800 OLOT Tel: + 34 972 273564 Fax: + 34 972 271 589 E-mail: observatori@catpaisatge.net

Program (251 KB)

Organized by: Observatori del Paisatge de Catalunya

Thursday 28 September 2006

8.00 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 9.30 Opening of the meeting

Welcome speeches

Joan NOGUÉ, Director of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia
Maguelonne DEJEANT-PONS, Head of the Spatial Planning and Landscape Division, Council of Europe
Valery SUDARENKOV, Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Russian Federation
Enrico BUERGI, Chair of the Conference to mark the entry into force of the European Landscape Convention
Oriol NEL·LO, Secretary of Spatial Planning of the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works, Generalitat of Catalonia
Anna PAGANS, Mayor of Girona
Antonio SERRANO, Secretary General for Territory and Biodiversity, Ministry of the Environment, Spain

WORKSHOP 1: Identifying and assessing landscapes

9.30 – 11.00 Introduction by the Chairs

Pavlina MIŠIKOVÁ, Representative of the Slovak Republic for the European Landscape Convention
Michael STARRETT, Chief Executive, The Heritage Council, Ireland

Opening lecture

Identifying and enhancing landscapes
Marc ANTROP, Department of Geography, University of Ghent, Belgium

National and regional experience

The Belgian experience: the landscape territories of the Walloon Region
Mireille DECONINCK, Representative of Belgium for the European Landscape Convention
The promotion of landscape management in Finland
Silja SUOMINEN, Representative of Finland for the Convention
Actions for the implementation of the Landscape Convention in Lithuania
Giedre GODIENE, Representative of Lithuania for the Convention.

Discussion

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break (at the second floor of the Auditori-Palau de Congressos)

11.30 – 13.00 National and regional experience

The Portuguese experience: landscape atlases
Maria José FESTAS, Representative of Portugal for the European Landscape Convention. Chair of the Committee of Senior Officials of the European Conference of Ministers responsible for Regional Planning (CEMAT) of Council of Europe member states
The Slovenian experience: landscape inventories
Natasa BRATINA JURKOVIČ, Representative of Slovenia for the European Landscape Convention
The Spanish experience: the Atlas of Spanish landscapes
Concepción SANZ, Department of Geography, Autonomous University of Madrid
The UK experience: landscape character assessments (LCA)
Graham FAIRCLOUGH, Countryside Agency, United Kingdom
The experience of the Veneto Region: the projects for landscape management
Vincenzo FABRIS, Head of the Spatial Planning Department, Region of Venezia, Italy
LPolish experience in landscape quality objective identification on the example of the Roztocze-Solska Forest Biosphere Reserve
Barbara Natalia SOWINSKÀ, Agricultural University of Lublin, Department of Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation

Discussion

Workshop summary

Moderator: Ivana RADIĆ, Representative of Croatia for the European Landscape Convention

113.00 – 15.00 Lunch (at the second floor of the Auditori-Palau de Congressos). Please produce your ticket during the registration

WORKSHOP 2: Landscape quality objectives and implementation of landscape policies

15.00 – 16.30 Introduction by the Chairs

Ghislaine DEVILLERS, Representative of Belgium at the Steering Committee for Cultural Heritage (CDPAT) of the Council of Europe Phaedon ENOTIADES, Representative of Cyprus for the European Landscape Convention

Opening lecture

Landscape quality objectives and the implementation of landscape policies
Yves LUGINBUHL, Professor at Paris I University, Council of Europe expert

National and regional policy

Landscape: practice of contradiction? Andorra, a case study
Jean-Michel ARMENGOL, National Commission of Andorra for UNESCO and Joan REGUANT, President of ICOMOS, Andorra
Landscape Plans in France
Jean-François SEGUIN, Representative of France for the European Landscape Convention
Landscape policies in Italy
Anna DI BENE, Representative of Italy for the European Landscape Convention
The Spanish experience: landscape catalogues and landscape guidelines for Catalonia Joan NOGUÉ, Director of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, Spain
Switzerland’s “Landscape 2020” project. Andreas STALDER, Representative of Switzerland for the European Landscape Convention

Discussion

16.30 – 17.00 Break

17:00 – 18:30 Landscape concepts and European projects

Territory as a palimpsest: the results of the PLANARCH project – planning, archaeology and landscape
Marie-Jeanne GHENNE, Head of the Secretariat of the Hainaut Province Chamber, Walloon Region, Royal Commission on Monuments, Sites and Excavations and John WILLIAMS, Head of Heritage Conservation, Kent County, United Kingdom
Territory as a cultural area: The Culture Landscapes Project – New alliances amongst science, regional economy and local people
Burkhardt KOLBMÜLLER, INTERREG IIIB CADSES project co-ordinator
Territory as an area for sustainable development: the results of the INTEREG IIIB CADSES project “Landscape Opportunities” (LOTO) – Guidelines for landscape management and spatial transformation
Anna ROSSI, Directorate General of Territory and Town Planning of the Lombardy Region; Lionella SCAZZOSI, Professor at the University of Milan and Council of Europe expert; Massimo ANGRILLI, Faculty of Architecture, University of Pescara, Italy and Giancarlo POLI, Assessor for Regional Development Planning, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy
Guide to Good Practice: the work done by the European Council for the Village and Small Town
Michael DOWER and Arthur SPIEGLER, European Council for the Village and Small Town (ECOVAST)

Discussion

18:30 – 19:00 Workshop summary

Moderator: Gertjan JOBSE, Representative of the European Federation of Landscape Architects (EFLA)

21:00 Dinner hosted by the local organisers in Bellavista Hotel (Pujada Polvorins, 1. 17004 Girona) Please produce your ticket during the registration. The hotel is 15 minutes’ walk from the town centre. There will also be a bus service

Friday 29 September 2006

WORKSHOP 3: The Spanish experience

9.00 – 10.30 Introduction by the Chairs

Joan GANYET i SOLÉ, Director General of Architecture and Landscape of the Generalitat of Catalonia Pedro GRIMALT, General Director of Management and Spatial Planning of the Generalitat of Valencia

Opening lecture

Actions for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Spain
Florencio ZOIDO, Professor at the University of Seville, Council of Europe expert

Regional experience

Landscape Observatory of Catalonia
Pere SALA, Co-ordinator of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, Spain
Landscape and territories of Cantabria
Miriam GARCÍA, Director General of Urbanism and Spatial planning, Government of Cantabria
The experience of Canaria
Miguel Ángel PULIDO, Director General of Spatial Planning, Government of Canarias
The legislative framework and incentives in landscape area of the Generalitat of Valencia
Vincente COLLADO CAPILLA, Head of the Department of Urbanism, Generalitat of Valencia

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break (at the second floor of the Auditori-Palau de Congressos)

11.00 – 13.00 European and local experience

The Spanish regions’ involvement in the INTERREG IIIC Medocc Pays Doc project: good landscape practice
Jaume BUSQUETS, Subdirector-General responsible for Landscape, Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Spain
Gonzalo ACOSTA, Head of the Service for territorial planification, Regional Government of Andalusia, Spain
The implementation of landscape quality objectives at local scale : the experience of the City of Girona
Ponç FELIU, Councillor in Environment, City of Girona
Dealing with the hydrological landscape: the Tagus basin
Rafael MATA OLMO, Professor of Geography, Autonomous University of Madrid
The 4th European Biennial on Landscape, Barcelona
Jordi BELLMUNT,Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia
Discussion
Workshop summary
Moderator: Margarita ORTEGA, Representative of Spain for the European Landscape Convention

13.00 – 15.00 Lunch (at the second floor of the Auditori-Palau de Congressos). Please produce your ticket during the registration

WORKSHOP 4: Outlook for the future

15.00 – 16.30 Introduction by the Chairs

Munevver DEMIRBAS OZEN, Representative of Turkey for the European Landscape Convention Martina PÁSKOVÁ, Representative of the Czech Republic for the European Landscape Convention

Opening lecture

The cultural significance of landscape
Eduardo MARTÍNEZ DE PISÓN, Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Director of the Duques de Soria Foundation

Presentations

The notion of scale and landscape: the “fractal landscape”?
Giuseppe LAS CASAS, Professor of Town Planning at the Faculty of Engineering, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy
Landscape and major areas of co-operation
Elias BERIATOS,President of the Greek Planners Association, Vice-President of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISoCaRP)
Landscapes of the future
Hagen EYINK,Head of the Division responsible for Policies which have a Spatial Impact, Ministry of Transport, Construction and Housing, Germany and Bettina MATZDORF, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Socioeconomics, Germany
Towards landscape routes
Gerhard ERMISCHER and Harald ROSMANITZ, Directors, Pathways to Cultural Landscapes
The metaphor of the hypertext and the perception of contemporary landscapes
Linda MAVIAN, Responsible of the Bureau for the management and the socio-cultural identity, Venezia Region, Italy
Discussion

16.30 – 17.00 Break

17.00 – 17.45 Round table on landscape quality objectives in Europe and in the world

President: Philippe POULLAOUEC-GONIDEC, UNESCO Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design

National representatives: Ricardo PRIORE, First Director of the European Network of local and regional authorities for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (ENELC); David BELGUE,President, Council of landscape of Quebec; Sirine ABDELJELIL, Faculty of Law, Tunisia; María Eugenia PÉREZ CARDENAS, Association of Landscape Professionals - Achippa, Chile; Brian FURZE,Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australia; Niek HAZENDONK, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, The Netherlands

Discussion and workshop summary.

Moderator: Paul WALSHE, Chair of ICOMOS, United Kingdom

17.45 – 18.30 General conclusions

Florencio ZOIDO, Professor at the University of Seville, Council of Europe expert

Closing statements
Margarita ORTEGA, Representative of Spain for the European Landscape Convention Maguelonne DEJEANT-PONS, Head of the Spatial Planning and Landscape Division, DG IV, Council of Europe Cristina HERTIA, Representative of Romania for the European Landscape Convention

18.15 Closing

Oriol NEL·LO, Secretary of Spatial Planning of the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works, Generalitat of Catalonia

19.00 – 20.30 Walking tour of Girona. Meeting point at the exit of the Auditori – Palau de Congressos. The visit will end in the Museum of History of the City of Girona

20.30 Official reception. Inauguration of the exhibition “País de paisatges” (“Lands of Landscapes”) at the Museum of History of the City of Girona, on the new policies and management instruments of landscape planning of Catalonia

With the presence Oriol NEL·LO, Secretary of Spatial Planning of the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works, Generalitat of Catalonia and of Anna PAGANS, Mayor of Girona

21.30 “Music and art for the land stewardship”

Inauguration of the second week of the land stewardship, in front of the Cathedral of Girona, organised by the Network of land stewardship

Saturday 30 September 2006

9.00 – 18.30 Optional program

Excursion of the volcanic area of Olot and the medieval towns of Garrotxa (in the Pre-Pyrenees of Catalonia), with a special emphasis on landscapes.

Places of entrance and departure: parking of La Copa, in front of the Tourism Office (C/ Berenguer Carnicer, 3).

The people who would like to go directly from Olot to Barcelona can get a regular busline with TEISA Company.

Timetable of Saturday afternoon:

Olot-Barcelona (via Amer): 15.30 (arrival at 17.45)
Olot-Barcelona (via Banyoles): 16.30 (arrival at 18.35)